Chansky’s Notebook: Dream to Nightmare

Posted Jul 5, 2022
Has the grant of rights spelled doom for the ACC? UNC’s John Swofford was considered a great ACC commissioner. However, one negotiation Swofford engineered for good reason may have done irreparable damage to the ACC. He got each school to sign a grant of media rights back to the conference to assure members could not bolt to the SEC or Big Ten. (Chapelboro.com)

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